25 Know therefore and understand that from [a]the going forth of the commandment to bring again the people, and to build Jerusalem, unto Messiah the Prince, shall be seven [b]weeks and [c]threescore and two weeks, and the street shall be built again, and the wall even in a [d]troublous time.

26 And after threescore and two [e]weeks, shall Messiah be slain, and shall [f]have nothing, and the people of the [g]prince that shall come, shall destroy the city and the Sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood: and unto the end of the battle it shall be destroyed by desolations.

27 And he [h]shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to [i]cease, [j]and for the overspreading of the abominations, he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:25 That is, from the time that Cyrus gave them leave to depart.
  2. Daniel 9:25 These weeks make forty-nine years, whereof 46 are referred to the time of the building of the Temple, and three to the laying of the foundation.
  3. Daniel 9:25 Counting from the sixth year of Darius, who gave the second commandment for the building of the Temple are 62 weeks, which make 434 years, which comprehend the time from the building of the Temple unto the baptism of Christ.
  4. Daniel 9:25 Hebrew, in straits of time.
  5. Daniel 9:26 In this least week of the seventy, shall Christ come and preach and suffer death.
  6. Daniel 9:26 He shall seem to have no beauty, nor to be of any estimation, as Isa. 53:2.
  7. Daniel 9:26 Meaning Titus, Vespasian’s son, who should come and destroy both the Temple and the people without all hope of recovery.
  8. Daniel 9:27 By the preaching of the Gospel he confirmed his promise, first to the Jews, and after to the Gentiles.
  9. Daniel 9:27 Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection.
  10. Daniel 9:27 Meaning, that Jerusalem and the Sanctuary should be utterly destroyed for their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague shall be so great, that they shall be all astonied at them.

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